[python-committers] [PSF-Members] Code Simplicity » Open Source Community, Simplified

[Steve Holden]

On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> On Feb 03, 2011, at 08:54 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> 
>>> I suspect this problem with the preferred DVCS workflow is going to
>>> cut fairly heavily into the number of bug fixes applied to the
>>> maintenance branches.
>> 
>> I'd be really surprised if it *has* to be that way.  Just how painful is it in
>> Mercurial to apply to newest branch first and back port?
> 
> I have no idea. I just know that the first response from veteran hg
> users when asked how to implement our current workflow in Mercurial is
> "don't do that" (followed by reluctant explanations of tools you might
> use to do it, if you insisted on doing things "the wrong way").
> 
Call me unadventurous, but i'd quite like to see how we get on ding things the *right* way first.

regards
 Steve